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Bowery Songs, the newest album from Joan Baez and her first live album in ten years, is a soaring chronicle of her 2003-2004 tour. The album was recorded in its entirety on the Saturday night after Election Day, November 2004, at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. From Joan’s opening acapella benediction, “Finlandia,” to her prophetic and telling versions of Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” and Steve Earle’s “Jerusalem” that close the album, there can be no mistaking the medium and the message she sought to capture.